Coming from the post of my desire for more food/drink facilities in the world
viewtopic.php?p=71713&hilit=bakery#p71713
I went a step further and observed Azeroth world: so many different places, biomes and cultures, yet so few food/drink variety. So after some study of race lore, zones and some ideas taken from real world recipes, i've came up with some culinary dishes that ideally would be sold in specific zones or looted by humanoids only. Feels very weird to me that Scarlet monastery zealots drop Stormwind Brie instead of supplying on closer food sources.
That being said, after some race research i've came up with some general conclusions:
Humans like to mix strong with mild flavours.
Dwarves love strong and hearty flavours.
Gnomes usually copy dwarven recipes and artificially enrich them with additives and an industrialized touch
Night elves like to distill and juice fresh fruits and vegetables.
High elves prefer mild flavours.
Orcs like acid and meaty flavours.
Trolls don't care too much what they eat, but they lean towards seafood for convinience.
Undead prefer to either preserve their food or go for very strong and foul flavours.
Tauren like mild solid foods and strong flavoured drinks.
Goblins promote foods that are "tourist traps" or "scammy", keeping the good food for themselves.
Author: Karen
Zone: Dun Morogh
Item: Dense Energy Cube
Flavor text (optional) : artificially made by gnomes to help survive after being thrown out from gnomergan
Type of food: Meat
Gastronomic Origin: Gnomes
Notes: Based on real world pemmican
Zone: Thousand Neddles
Item: Shimmering Flats Steamed "Ham"
Type of food: Meat
Gastronomic Origin: Goblin
Notes: Based on the old simpsons gag "Steamed Hams", is one of the "scam" foods goblins sell at shimmering flats. Since there's a lot of salt in there, they use it to disguise the food for a "ham"
Zone:Darkshore
Item: Darkshore Grouper Soup
Type of food: Fish
Gastronomic Origin: Night Elven
Notes: Since it's a common species in the coasts of Darkshore, some parts of the fish are safe to be consumed raw, while the rest is usually cooked into soup
Zone: Felwood
Item: Felwood Distilled Fungi Infusion
Type of food: Drink
Gastronomic Origin: Night Elven/Tauren
Notes: While Night elves began by distilling the corrupt waters of felwood into something drinkable, the taurens who moved there added to the distillation procces local mushrooms to make a more nutritious drink
Zone: Ashenvale
Item: Astranaar Fruit Salad
Type of food: Fruit
Gastronomic Origin: Night elven
Notes: Not much to say, Night elves in Ashenvale have easy access to fresh fruit, so they consume them regularly
Zone: Stonetalon Mountains
Item: Stonetalon Sour Cherry Tea
Type of food: Drink
Gastronomic Origin: Tauren
Notes: By picking and drying local berries, taurens are able to make this aromatic and strong flavoured tea
Zone: Durotar
Item: Orgrimmar Boar Wine
Type of food: Alcohol
Gastronomic Origin: Orcish
Notes: I swear i saw this one some wiki or warcraft novel. They used boars stomachs to pour grape juices, berries and fungus, sealed them and let them ferment inside the stomach. A few days later they open it and the final product became an alcoholic beverage
Zone: The Barrens
Item: Kodo Spicy dried Jerky
Type of food: Meat
Gastronomic Origin: Orcish
Notes: Based on the Bifi Sausages, it suprises me there's so few kodo meat recipes, especially given their size and numbers in the barrens
Zone: Desolace
Item: Shadowprey Raw Lobster Heart
Type of food: Fish
Gastronomic Origin: Troll
Notes: Based on tribes around the world which eat raw parts of an animal for superticious reasons. If there is a race who would enjoy eating raw unusual organs, it's the trolls for sure
Zone: Feralas
Item: Feralas Mana Enriches Grapes
Type of food: Fruit
Gastronomic Origin: Kaldorei/Night Elven
Notes: Feralas has many mana sources, which reflects on the plants they grow there. The Kaldorei developed those grapes over centuries so they can hold more mana particles for them to enjoy. Those ones restore both mana and health, but at a slower rate than similar level food or drink
Zone: Duskwallow Marsh
Item: Theramore Naval Hardtack
Type of food: Bread
Gastronomic Origin: Human
Notes: Based on our Hardtack, which was used by the military and travelers until mass canned food became available. It consist on a very basic bread without yeast and baked at low temp in the oven for long periods of time. The result is some form of crackers which can last for decades or even centuries without being spoiled since they lack any moist. It was usually consumed by smashing them into tiny pieces or mixed with some water or grog to make some kind of improvised soup.
Zone: Silithus
Item: Silithus Scorpion Squeezings
Type of food: Alcohol
Gastronomic Origin: Night Elven
Notes: Based on Wasteland 2 alcohol "snake squeezings", this distilled venom has some alcoholic properties, which makes the resting periods more enjoyable while building poison resistance at the same time
Zone: Blackstone Island
Item: Blackstone Spiced Canned "Krab"
Type of food: Fish
Gastronomic Origin: Goblin
Notes: Based on the SPAM cans, it's another of those "scam" foods in order for greedy goblins to make some profit.
Zone: Tirisfal Glades
Item: Undercity Black Soup
Type of food: Meat
Gastronomic Origin: Undead
Notes: As announced in Everlook Broadcast radio, this dish is also inspired on the spartan "Black Soup/Black Jelly", Which consisted on animal blood with chunks of meat, some spices and boiled until it adquires a stew consistency. While it was known to have a very bitter and foul taste, it is believed it was very nutritious.
Zone: Western Plaguelands
Item: Heartglen Ambrosia
Type of food: Alcohol
Gastronomic Origin: Human
Notes: This alcohol is directly taken from future wow expansions
Zone: Eastern Plaguelands
Item: Eastwald Poached Worm Slices
Type of food: Meat
Gastronomic Origin: Human/Undead
Notes: While the undead hunted the Plaguelands worms and kept them into slices for easier consumption, it was the humans who still live there who went one step further and properly cooked it so it becomes more flavourful
Zone: Silverpine FOrest
Item: Silverpine Pickled Mushrooms
Type of food: Fungus
Gastronomic Origin: Undead
Notes: Undead, fascinated with preservation and embalming, made pickled products so they can last longer periods without become spoiled
Zone: The Hinterlands
Item: Aerie Peak Marinated Wolf Haunch
Type of food: Meat
Gastronomic Origin: Dwarven
Notes: Greymane wolves are the main predators of Gryphons. So Wildhammer dwarves usually hunt them to keep their population in check. Since they need to hunt them regularly, they use it's meat to feed themselves and any hungry traveler. They're presented in such a form that you can eat them with one hand, having the other hand free for drinking
Zone: Wetlands
Item: Menethil Mushroom Risotto
Type of food: Fungi
Gastronomic Origin: Human
Notes: Based on the italian rissotto, this dish contains rice and mushrooms, abundant in damp places such as wetlands
Zone: Searing Gorge/Burning Stepped
Item: Refreshing Lava Bettle's Juice
Type of food: Drink
Gastronomic Origin: Dwarven
Notes: Name based on the "bettle juice" cartoons from Tim Burton, it's a dwarven recent invention to keep non dwarf races refreshed and away from heatstrokes
Zone: Duskwood
Item: Darkshire Potato Cake
Type of food: Bread
Gastronomic Origin: Human
Notes: Based on the Spanish dish "Spanish Tortilla", it's a mix of mildy fried potato slices glued with a few eggs and cooked altoghether until it gets a cake consistency. Adding onion is optional
Zone: Swamp of Sorrows
Item: Swamp Frog Legs of Sorrows
Type of food: Meat
Gastronomic Origin: Orcish
Notes: Based on the French dish "Frog legs", orcish cuisine is heavily based on what animals are nearby for hunt. In a swamp, there's lots of frogs
Zone: Blasted lands
Item: Purified Blasted Boar Bacon
Type of food: Meat
Gastronomic Origin: Human/High elven
Notes: Inspired in both real life bacon and a similar food in TBC done in Hellfire peninsula, Having bacon in the game sure will become a fan favourite
Zone: Stranglethorn Vale
Item: Stranglethorn Crimson Mango
Type of food: Fruit
Gastronomic Origin: Native of the zone
Notes: With such a big jungle, it wouldn't surprise me that some unique fruits grow there. At first i thought about crimson bannanas just like we have in the real world, but there isn't any icon that looks remotelly a reddish banana
Zone: Lapidis Isle
Item: Lapidis Crustacean Kabob
Type of food: Fish
Gastronomic Origin: Troll
Notes: With so many crustaceans, the trolls of the area cook them in sticks for later consumption
Zone: Gillijim's Isle
Item: Gillijim Boiled Algae
Type of food: Not edible by pets
Gastronomic Origin: Troll
Notes: Based on the japanese Boiled algae, the trolls of the area, once more, grabbed whatever is nearby and cooked until it becomes edible
Zone: Gilneas
Item: Gilnean Root Beer
Type of food: Drink
Gastronomic Origin: Human
Notes: Based on the real world "Root Beer". Suprisingly, root beer doesn't have any alcohol, altough it goes a similar fermentation process just like regular beer
Zone: Thalassian Highlands
Item: Quel'dorei Sweet Curd
Type of food: Cheese
Gastronomic Origin: High elven
Notes: Based on real word Curd and Iogurt products, i decided to give this type of food to high elves, since their wiki says they have lesser tasted buds than dwarves and thus prefer milder flavours
Zone: Arathi Highlands
Item: Stromgarde Cottage Cheese Dumplings
Type of food: Cheese
Gastronomic Origin: Human
Notes: While Stromgarde had some harbour in Previous Warcraft games but not much here in wow, instead of a fish product i've decided on some cheese dumplings, based on the real world "Lazy Vareniki", an Ukranian recipe
What do i wish with all those dishes? FIrst of all, i wish to be able to visit the facilities where those foods are produced (plenty of alterac swiss, but haven't found any cheesery, same with dalaran wine, where are the wine cellars?).
And second, i wish for most zones to have a unique product, only purchaseable in that area but being lootable by humanoids able to drop food/drink of a similar level for more variety.
Let men know what you think, have a great day!
More Azeroth culinary dishes!
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More Azeroth culinary dishes!
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Re: More Azeroth culinary dishes!
Wanna add your own food/drink/alcohol item?
DM the following data and i'll make it into an item and post it on the forum!
Author: (your name)
Zone: (origin of the item)
Item: (name of the item)
Flavor yellow text (optional):
Type of food: (meat, fish, bread etc. for pets or just not available for pets for stuff like ice cream, vegetables...)
Gastronomic Origin: (race or races who invented the dish)
Notes: (lore about the item or where you took inspiration from)
unless specified, the item is both sold and lootable from humanoids of appropiate level.Regarding values, i'll use the zone as reference for giving it's appropiate level and hp/mana restoration.
DM the following data and i'll make it into an item and post it on the forum!
Author: (your name)
Zone: (origin of the item)
Item: (name of the item)
Flavor yellow text (optional):
Type of food: (meat, fish, bread etc. for pets or just not available for pets for stuff like ice cream, vegetables...)
Gastronomic Origin: (race or races who invented the dish)
Notes: (lore about the item or where you took inspiration from)
unless specified, the item is both sold and lootable from humanoids of appropiate level.Regarding values, i'll use the zone as reference for giving it's appropiate level and hp/mana restoration.
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Re: More Azeroth culinary dishes!
Author: Karen
Zone: Dun Morogh
Item: Dense Energy Cube
Flavor text (optional) : artificially made by gnomes to help survive after being thrown out from gnomergan
Type of food: Meat
Gastronomic Origin: Gnomes
Notes: Based on real world pemmican
Zone: Dun Morogh
Item: Dense Energy Cube
Flavor text (optional) : artificially made by gnomes to help survive after being thrown out from gnomergan
Type of food: Meat
Gastronomic Origin: Gnomes
Notes: Based on real world pemmican
Re: More Azeroth culinary dishes!
Reploidrocsa wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 9:36 pm Author: Karen
Zone: Dun Morogh
Item: Dense Energy Cube
Flavor text (optional) : artificially made by gnomes to help survive after being thrown out from gnomergan
Type of food: Meat
Gastronomic Origin: Gnomes
Notes: Based on real world pemmican
I like this! Could easily be paired with this drinks idea I had as a cooking addition! viewtopic.php?t=13781
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